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List:       apache-httpd-dev
Subject:    Re: Content Length and Filtering
From:       "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding () ebuilt ! com>
Date:       2001-09-30 1:28:42
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> Note: Although Content-Length of responses is required by the RFCs,
> browsers can manage without it, contrary to Content-Length or requests
> (e.g. POST), where it is a "must" not only for standardizations
> purposes. My question is about responses.

Content-Length is not required in the response by any of the RFCs.  It is
only one of three ways of indicating the message boundary in responses.

....Roy

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